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Tunguska Zapovednik

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Miami WayToRussified Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 340	Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 7:09 pm    Post subject: Tunguska Zapovednik Has anyone here ever been to the Tunguska Zapovednik to see the meteoroid impact area? June 30 will be the 100th anniversary of this event! I wish I was really rich so I could travel wherever and whenever I felt like it. I would go to the Tunguska site just for the heck of it because it's interesting to me.
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darthvader WayToRussified Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 427	Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:39 pm    Post subject: It was an interesting event. ".....event occurred at 0h 14m 28s UT 30 June 1908 near the Stony Tunguska River in Mid-Siberia, at latitude 60° 53' 09" N, longitude 101° 53' 40" E. On seismographs, it recorded like a 12.5 megaton air burst at 8.5 km altitude, and its effects were strongly felt over 2150 km2, one of which was the mass blowing over of trees. Since meteorite fragments were not found, it is supposed that this was something like a comet head, composed of ice and dust, that collided with the earth. Events of this kind would leave no geological record, so we have no idea how common they are....." http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/geol/kamchat.htm
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Miami WayToRussified Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 340	Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 6:14 am    Post subject: Here is another website too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
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